Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 2 | She rubbed her eye , and tried to open it again . |
| 3 | With her eyes still crossed , she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards . |
| 4 | To dramatize the bureaucracy 's stifling effect , the ILD set up a phoney manufacturing shop and tried to get it legally recognized , step-by-step . |
| 5 | Koresh zeroed in on this and tried to bring it closer to where we are to make it more real so it was uppermost in the minds of all his followers . |
| 6 | In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up . |
| 7 | Whilst it was still airborne you gave it an almighty swipe and endeavoured to send it further than your opponent . |
| 8 | They had already heard the news and seemed to take it calmly . |
| 9 | One day my sister drew a T , and seemed to want it very much . |
| 10 | But because I was young and inexperienced I mistook the nature of our relationship , and came to understand it only after it was well behind me . |
| 11 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 12 | At the top of the hill before Godmanchester Mr Ramsey felt uncomfortable with his coat and turned to pull it right . |
| 13 | He pulled up a piece of grass and began to chew it thoughtfully . |
| 14 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 15 | The man , it was the bald one with the glasses , knelt down on both knees and grabbed the bottom and began to kiss it ardently . |
| 16 | Donald grabbed the rake from his mother and began to ply it hard , bouncing its teeth on the parched ground under the stalks . |
| 17 | She picked up the oil and began to study it more closely . |
| 18 | The Doctor grabbed the manual locking wheel and began to spin it rapidly . |
| 19 | He took up a cloth by the side of the cash register and started to move it slowly over the surface , looking up just once as I left the shop , saying , ‘ Goodbye , then . ’ |
| 20 | Matilda took the second slice and started eating it slowly . |
| 21 | The boy cut himself another thick slice and started eating it fast . |
| 22 | ‘ We were very upset and decided to take it elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | And for one reason or another the subcontractor bowled up on site on the Saturday afternoon and decided to do it then . |
| 24 | It seems that once upon a time OS/2 was going to be the real version of Windows , but Microsoft changed its mind and decided to go it alone . |
| 25 | McGrath , the present Parish Priest , visited an American Parish which had Perpetual Exposition and decided to introduce it here . |
| 26 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 27 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 28 | The Japanese took the initial technology and kept moving it forward . |
| 29 | He held one paw forward in an awkward , unnatural way and kept licking it miserably . |
| 30 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |